Plasmodium falciparum: the human agglutinating antibody response to the infected red cell surface is predominantly variant specific.

doi:10.1016/0014-4894(92)90213-t

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Plasmodium falciparum: the human agglutinating antibody response to the infected red cell surface is predominantly variant specific.

Experimental parasitology - 1 Nov 1992

Newbold C I, Pinches R, Roberts D J, Marsh K

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There is mounting evidence that an important component of the host-protective immune response to Plasmodium falciparum is the antibody response to the altered surface of the infected erythrocyte. The nature of these surface changes and the responses to them have been difficult to analyse because...

Topics

Agglutination
Animals
Antibodies, Protozoan
Antigens, Protozoan
Erythrocytes
Genetic Variation
Humans
Malaria, Falciparum
Plasmodium falciparum
Species Specificity

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